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This book presents studies on current vegetation topics, from polar
to tropical regions. It is a festschrift to mark the 70th birthday
of Prof. Elgene O. Box, who has studied vegetation all over the
world, both through fieldwork and modeling. It reflects a number of
his interests, including basic ecological plant forms (cf 'plant
functional types'), temperate-zone forests, and evergreen versus
seasonal patterns. Section 1 discusses the concept of vegetation
series, while Section 2 has two global-scale chapters on plant
functional traits and whether they are related more to climate or
phylogeny. Section 3 has nine chapters focusing on vegetation
history, regional vegetation, and how these have influenced current
species organizations and distributions. Regions treated include
Russia, China, the USA, Mexico and Mediterranean areas. Lastly,
Section 4 addresses aspects of vegetation change and plant ecology.
Every chapter in this unique book offers original ideas on the
topic of vegetation, as the authors are assembled from a world-wide
population of leading vegetational ecologists, whose interests
range from local communities to global theoretical questions.
This book presents studies on current vegetation topics, from polar
to tropical regions. It is a festschrift to mark the 70th birthday
of Prof. Elgene O. Box, who has studied vegetation all over the
world, both through fieldwork and modeling. It reflects a number of
his interests, including basic ecological plant forms (cf 'plant
functional types'), temperate-zone forests, and evergreen versus
seasonal patterns. Section 1 discusses the concept of vegetation
series, while Section 2 has two global-scale chapters on plant
functional traits and whether they are related more to climate or
phylogeny. Section 3 has nine chapters focusing on vegetation
history, regional vegetation, and how these have influenced current
species organizations and distributions. Regions treated include
Russia, China, the USA, Mexico and Mediterranean areas. Lastly,
Section 4 addresses aspects of vegetation change and plant ecology.
Every chapter in this unique book offers original ideas on the
topic of vegetation, as the authors are assembled from a world-wide
population of leading vegetational ecologists, whose interests
range from local communities to global theoretical questions.
Warm-temperate deciduous forests are "southern", mainly
oak-dominated deciduous forests, as found over the warmer southern
parts of the temperate deciduous forest regions of East Asia,
Europe and eastern North America. Climatic analysis has shown that
these forests extend from typical temperate climates to well into
the warm-temperate zone, in areas where winters are a bit too cold
for the ‘zonal’ evergreen broad-leaved forests normally
expected in that climatic zone. This book is the first to recognize
and describe these southern deciduous forests as an alternative to
the evergreen forests of the warm-temperate zone. This
warm-temperate zone will become more important under global
warming, since it represents the contested transition between
deciduous and evergreen forests and between tropical and temperate
floristic elements. This book is dedicated to the memory of Tatsuō
Kira, the imaginative Japanese ecologist who first noticed and
described this general zonation exception and who proposed the name
warm-temperate deciduous forest.
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